Approach to thermal equilibrium in atomic collisions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Zhang, P ^a,c   Kharchenko, V ^a,b,c   Dalgarno, A ^a,c   Matsumi, Y ^c   Nakayama, T ^c   Takahashi, K ^c  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT SCATTERING; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

ENERGY RELAXATION; MAXWELLIAN DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL BATH GAS; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 40849135831     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.103001     Document Type: Article

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